Hillside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A Post-Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Hillside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-granite-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Hillside Cottage, Arnolds Lane, Hinxworth, SG7 5HR
- OS grid reference
- TL 238 407
- Coordinates
- 52.05168, -0.19564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hillside Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and has weatherboard cladding, covered by a plain tile roof. The cottage is two storeys high, featuring a centrally located, 19th-century rebuilt ridge stack. It has two 20th-century casement windows, the upper ones set within eaves gables. Inside, the house has two bays and retains chamfered floor beams. An early 19th-century half-glazed door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. A 19th-century painted brick extension is located to the left, and a 20th-century single-storey extension is situated at the front right. The cottage was formerly known as Arnold's Hill.
Local climate
Hillside Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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